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Science as autobiography the troubled life of Niels Jerne / by Söderqvist, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…"Immunology Is for Me Becoming a Mostly Philosophical Subject" 278 --Epilogue: "What Struggle to Escape" 292 --Abbreviations Used in Notes 297 --Notes 299 --Unpublished Sources 329 --Bibliography 331 --Index 351.…”
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The Routledge handbook of visual impairment / by Ravenscroft, John

Table of Contents: “…; Ten ways in which children can be visually affected by CVI; A "thinking in threes" approach to the subject of CVI; Aspects of cerebral auditory impairment that can compoundthe difficulties of CVI…”
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The Routledge history of American sexuality /

Table of Contents: “…Domesticity -- Sexual Constraint and Subjection within the Marital Household -- Sexual Surveillance and Intervention -- Alternative Domesticities -- Domestic Diversity and Normativity -- Notes -- 17. …”
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E-Books in Academic Libraries Stepping up to the Challenge /

Table of Contents: “…Richardson -- E-books across the consortium: reflections and lessons from a three-year DDA experiment at the Orbis Cascade Alliance / Kathleen Carlisle Fountain -- The simplest explanation: Occam's reader and the future of interlibrary loan and e-books / Ryan Litsey, Kenny Ketner, Joni Blake, & Anne McKee -- Developing a global e-book collection: an exploratory study / Dracine Hodges -- Users' experiences -- A social scientist uses e-books for research and in the classroom / Ann-Marie Clark -- The user experience of e-books in academic libraries: perception, discovery and use / Tao Zhang & Xi Niu -- E-book reading practices in different subject areas: an exploratory log analysis / Robert S. …”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…6 At the Margins of Citizenship: Oil, Poverty, and Race in Esmeraldas, EcuadorFor the People, Revolution; Public Infrastructure; Income Supplements; The Margins of the State; The Revolution Is Here; 15 de Marzo; Tabete; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation; Settler-Mapping and Counter-Mapping Indigenous Difference; Dinetah: Navajo Homeland; Carbon's Contradictions: Grandma Alice and the Everyday Life of Coal; Romanticism as a Form of Settler Racism: Reconsidering the Subject of Resistance…”
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Rethinking Value Chains : Tackling the Challenges of Global Capitalism by Palpacuer, Florence

Table of Contents: “…Making the TSD chapters subject to the same dispute settlement as other parts of the agreement -- Addressing enforcement -- Addressing the negative distributional effects of trade within FTAs -- Preferential access: the Generalized System of Preferences regime -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Part II Strengthening the role of people and democracy -- five Civil society action towards judiciary changes in the regulation of global value chains -- Introduction -- CORE: a civil society coalition pushing for corporate responsibility…”
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The librarian's book of lists

Table of Contents: “…Dewey" used to say -- The Seattle book examiner's top 20 things librarians in public libraries wish patrons knew or did -- The Swiss Army librarian's top 10 pet peeves about patrons -- 10 commandments for borrowers of books -- 6 birds that make library-related sounds -- Larry Nix's top 10 libraries on postage stamps -- 15 favorite library postcards -- Top 10 library blogs -- Top 16 book blogs -- Top 60 subject blogs and news sources -- Norman Stevens's 10 best children's picture books that feature libraries and librarians -- 10 librarians in adult fiction -- 25 offbeat book titles -- Martha Spear's top 10 reasons to be a librarian -- Scott Douglas's 10 reasons to be (and not to be) a librarian -- Top 10 ways to make sure potential applicants for your library job are turned off by your ad -- 10 recruitment vows for librarians -- Roy Tennant's top 10 things library administrators should know about technology -- Leigh Anne Vrabel's 10 things to do when you are a library director -- Jenny Levine's mindset list for library school students -- Sean Fitzpatrick's 7 cool tools that librarians should know about -- Key dates in American library history -- 5 movies with the worst librarian stereotypes -- 5 movies with librarian role models -- 3 TV shows with librarians -- 12 librarians who came back to haunt -- Top 15 books about real librarians -- 12 librarians who were poets -- 14 ways public libraries are good for the country -- Ranganathan's 5 laws of library science (updated) -- Michael Gorman's revised laws of library science -- John Cotton Dana's 12 rules for reading -- Top 25 largest libraries in North America -- Ten unusual rare-book genres -- 10 book curses -- 10 intriguing paper defects -- Stephen Leary's top 10 ways to exit a library -- Booklist editors' best American fiction, 1980-2005 -- Top 10 challenged books, 1990-2000 -- Other challenged books, 2001-2009 -- Top 12 silly reasons to ban a book -- 10 most popular ALA celebrity READ posters -- What to do when the media calls -- How to say "where is the library?" …”
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Pathways to peace : the transformative power of children and families /

Table of Contents: “…/ Cigdem Kagitcibasi and Pia Rebello Britto -- Linking peacebuilding and child development : a basic framework / Mohammed Abu-Nimer and Ilham Nasser -- The power of media in peacebuilding / Lucy Nusseibeh -- Creating effective programs and policies to reduce violence and promote peace -- Pia rebello britto, rima salah, mohammed abu-nimer, jacqueline bhabha, anwarul k. chowdhury, gary r. gunderson, cigdem kagitcibasi, lucy nusseibeh, olayinka omigbodun, mikiko otani, and geraldine smyth -- Bibliography -- Subject index.…”
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American women poets in the 21st century : where lyric meets language /

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told 8 -- The Plan 8 -- View zo -- Up to Speed zo -- Manufacturing zz -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics 24 -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27 -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl 53 -- From Kali 56 -- From The Retired Architect 60 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence 6i -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, -- by Linda Voris 68 -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days 94 -- Soul Keeping Company 95 -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96 -- Am Moor 98 -- Carrowmore 99 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03 -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound I27 -- Covenant 131 -- Prayer I34 -- Gulls 135 -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138 -- In/Silence I40 -- Philosopher's Stone 142 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border 146 -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148 -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine 178 -- If So, Tell Me I79 -- Confession of My Images i8o -- Defensive Rapture 81 -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183 -- The Farewell Stairway 85 -- Words 88 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination 89 -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz -- From Happily 229 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics 235 -- Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242 -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology z68 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, -- Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California -- Geological Syntax 276 -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of -- Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28 -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair 308 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to -- Cover to Crown to Cover 325 -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, -- by Ming-Qian Ma 329 -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353 -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363 -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in -- Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino 400 -- Fancy Cortex 400 -- Music for Homemade Instruments 401 -- The Anthropic Principle 40I -- Sleeping with the Dictionary 402 -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403 -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- by Elisabeth A. …”
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Manifestos for the future of critical disability studies volume 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Disabling militarism: theorising anti-militarism, dis/ability and dis/placement; Theorising mis/fitting spatial justice; Embodied spatial-subjects; Militarised knowledge; Militarised ecologies; Conclusion: disabling militarism and developing an anti-militarism praxis; References; PART II: Media, technology and design; 8. …”
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Too Much is Not Enough : Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2013 /

Table of Contents: “…Ellero and Paula Sullenger – Resolved, every librarian a subject librarian: implementing subject librarianship across a research library / Steven E. …”
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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Feminisms redux an anthology of literary theory and criticism /

Table of Contents: “…Gilbert and Susan Gubar -- "Dancing through the minefield : some observations on the theory, practice, and politics of a feminist literary criticism" (1980) / Annette Kolodny -- "What has never been : an overview of lesbian feminist literary criticism" (1981) / Bonnie Zimmerman -- "Aesthetics" from How to suppress women's writing (1983) / Joanna Russ -- "Caste, class, and canon" (1981/1987) / Paul Lauter -- "A criticism of our own : autonomy and assimilation in Afro-American and feminist literary theory" (1989) / Elaine Showalter -- "Introduction" from Gender in African women's writing : identity, sexuality, difference (1997) / Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi -- "Introduction : on the politics of literature" from The resisting reader : a feminist approach to American fiction (1978) / Judith Fetterley -- "The father's seduction" from The daughter's seduction: feminism and psychoanalysis (1982) / Jane Gallop -- "Constructing the subject : deconstructing the text (1985) / Catherine Belsey -- "Introduction" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Gender assymetry and erotic triangles" from Between men: English literature and male homosocial desire (1985) / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- "Apostrophe, animation, and abortion" (1986) / Barbara Johnson -- "Feminist politics : what's home got to do with it?" …”
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Restoring the brain : neurofeedback as an integrative approach to health /

Table of Contents: “…2.2 The Foundations of Neurofeedback in Animal Studies -- 2.3 Evaluation of SMR Reinforcement with Human Subjects -- 2.4 Neurofeedback in Application to Addictions -- 2.5 Slow Cortical Potential Training -- 2.6 New Departures in Neurofeedback -- 2.7 Status of the Principal Approaches to Neurofeedback -- 2.8 Toward a New Departure in Feedback -- 2.9 The Development of Infra-Low Frequency Training -- 2.10 Toward an Understanding of Covert, Continuous ILF Neurofeedback -- 2.11 A Summary Perspective -- Notes -- 3. …”
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Regulating Content on Social Media : Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features / by Tan, Corinne

Table of Contents: “…Subsistence: works and other subject matter protected by copyrightB. Subsistence: originality; C. …”
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Africa and World War II /

Table of Contents: “…Byfield (Cornell University) -- African labor in the making of World War II / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Part II. Colonial subjects and imperial armies -- The military, race and resistance: the conundrums of recruiting Black South African men during the Second World War / Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg) -- The Moroccan "effort de guerre" in World War II / Driss Maghraoui (Al Akhawayn University) -- Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years in French West Africa / Catherine Bogosian Ash (Wayne State University) -- No country fit for heroes: the plight of disabled Kenyan veterans / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. …”
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Business transformation : a roadmap for maximizing organizational insights / by Zeid, Aiman

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 The Critical Role of Business Insight The Disruptive Nature of Data An Unconventional Look at Conventional "Wisdom" Innovating at the Speed of Data Weighing Risk and Bringing the Better Part of "Gut Instinct" Back into the Equation People, Process, Technology, and Culture Starting the Journey Notes Chapter 2 The Journey: Taking the First Steps toward Transforming Your Organization Different Approaches Juggling Multiple Challenges How to Deal with Challenges Effectively Executive Sponsorship: Critical to Success Understanding Current Capabilities Aligning Capabilities with Business Objectives Let's Start the Journey Taking the First Steps to Transforming Your Organization Note Chapter 3 Challenged Organizations: When Rugged Individualism and Department Silos Aren't Enough Getting Along One Day at a Time: Organizations at the Individual Level When "Have It Your Way" Isn't a Good Thing Superhighways and Dirt Roads Consolidated, but Not Cohesive: Organizations at the Departmental Level Subject Matter Experts and Gatekeepers Understanding the True Consequences of the Challenged Levels Business Transformation Strategy Objectives for Challenged Organizations Notes Chapter 4 Foundational Organizations: Making the Leap to an Enterprise-Wide Approach The Possibilities That Come with Patience Seeing the Value across the Enterprise How an Enterprise Level Organization Functions Big Data: The Big Opportunity for Enterprise Level Organizations Don't Let Up Continuous Improvement Required Business Transformation Strategy Objectives for Foundational Organizations Chapter 5 Progressive Organizations: Harnessing the Power of Information to Achieve Market Advantage and Expand Their Business Offerings Optimization: The Easiest Business Case of All Toward Innovation and Beyond Business Transformation Strategy Objectives for Progressive Organizations Chapter 6 Centers of Excellence: The Key to Accelerate Organizational Transformation The 10,000-Foot View of Information A Quick Look at the Key Responsibilities of a CoE CoEs and the Levels of Maturity How Should CoEs Be Organized? …”
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Transforming Henry James /

Table of Contents: “…My Man": May Bartram's Ambivalence in "The Beast in the Jungle" / Leslie Petty -- ch. Seventeen Hysteric Subjects in The Wings of the Dove / Beth S. Ash --…”
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Advanced fracture mechanics and structural integrity / by Saxena, A. (Ashok)

Table of Contents: “…Methods of Estimating J-Integral; 3.1 Analytical Solutions; 3.2 Determination of J in Test Specimens; 3.2.1 Semi-Empirical Methods of Determining J; 3.2.2 J for a Deep Edge Crack Specimen Subject to Pure Bending, SEC(B); 3.2.3 Merkle-Corten Analysis of a Compact Specimen; 3.2.4 J for Center Crack Tension Geometry; 3.3 J for Growing Cracks; 3.4 Estimating J-Integral for Cracked Components; 3.4.1 Elastic-Plastic Estimation Procedure; 3.4.2 J-Solutions for Cracks in Infinite Bodies…”
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Ensuring food safety in the European Union / by Silano, V., Silano, Marco

Table of Contents: “…5.2.13 Readability Criteria -- 5.2.14 Mandatory Nutrition Information -- 5.2.15 Additional Forms of Expression and Presentation -- 5.3 Voluntary Consumer's Information -- 5.3.1 Nutrition Claims -- 5.3.2 Health Claims -- 5.3.2.1 General Function Health Claims Already in Use (Article 13.1) -- 5.3.2.2 General Function Health Claims Based on New Data Subject to Protection (Article 13.5) -- 5.3.2.3 Health Claims Ex Article 14A (Reduction of Disease Risk Claims) and 14B (Children Health and Development Claims) -- 5.3.3 Nutritional Profiles…”
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